What You Want to See

mp3 cd, 1 pages

Published May 1, 2018 by Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio, Inc..

ISBN:: 978-1-5384-3049-1

(2 reviews)

"The thrilling follow up to The Last Place You Look, starring troubled and determined private investigator, Roxane Weary. Marin Strasser has a secret. Her fiancé thinks her secret is that she's having an affair, and he hires P.I. Roxane Weary to prove it.Then, just days into the case, Marin is shot to death on a side street in an apparent mugging. But soon enough the police begin to focus on Roxane's client for Marin's death, so she starts to dig deeper into Marin's life--discovering that the elegant woman she's been following has a past and a half, including two previous marriages, an adult son fresh out of prison, and a criminal record of her own. The trail leads to a crew of con artists, an ugly real estate scam that defrauds unsuspecting elderly homeowners out of their property, and the suspicious accident of a wealthy older woman who lives just …

"The thrilling follow up to The Last Place You Look, starring troubled and determined private investigator, Roxane Weary. Marin Strasser has a secret. Her fiancé thinks her secret is that she's having an affair, and he hires P.I. Roxane Weary to prove it.Then, just days into the case, Marin is shot to death on a side street in an apparent mugging. But soon enough the police begin to focus on Roxane's client for Marin's death, so she starts to dig deeper into Marin's life--discovering that the elegant woman she's been following has a past and a half, including two previous marriages, an adult son fresh out of prison, and a criminal record of her own. The trail leads to a crew of con artists, an ugly real estate scam that defrauds unsuspecting elderly homeowners out of their property, and the suspicious accident of a wealthy older woman who lives just down the street from where Marin was killed. With Roxane's client facing a murder indictment, the scammers hit close to home to force Roxane to drop the case, and it becomes clear that the stakes are as high as the secrets run deep"--

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barbara fister reviewed What you want to see by Kristen Lepionka (Roxanne Weary mystery)

Review of 'What you want to see' on 'LibraryThing'

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Reposted from Reviewing the Evidence with permission.returnreturnKristen Lepionka burst out of the gate in 2017 with THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK, the start of a PI series that combined homage to the genre's traditions with a fresh, complicated protagonist. The second in the Roxane Weary series continues to pay its debt to the genre with a plot that's less showy than her first but as intricately plotted as something Ross Macdonald might have come up with; in fact, a couple of minor characters could move right into one of his novels and feel at home. Best of all, Roxane continues to be a character you want to spend time with â prickly, vulnerable, and intelligent, though not always smart about her own well-being.returnreturnIt starts out as a simple job. Arthur Ungless suspects his fiancee Marin is seeing someone else. That wouldn't be entirely surprising. She's relatively young and strikingly attractive …

Reposted from Reviewing the Evidence with permission.returnreturnKristen Lepionka burst out of the gate in 2017 with THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK, the start of a PI series that combined homage to the genre's traditions with a fresh, complicated protagonist. The second in the Roxane Weary series continues to pay its debt to the genre with a plot that's less showy than her first but as intricately plotted as something Ross Macdonald might have come up with; in fact, a couple of minor characters could move right into one of his novels and feel at home. Best of all, Roxane continues to be a character you want to spend time with â prickly, vulnerable, and intelligent, though not always smart about her own well-being.returnreturnIt starts out as a simple job. Arthur Ungless suspects his fiancee Marin is seeing someone else. That wouldn't be entirely surprising. She's relatively young and strikingly attractive compared to the aging print shop owner. Roxane follows her for a few days, seeing nothing suspicious. Not until her client's check bounces - and the police want to talk to her. Someone has murdered Marin. With Arthur Ungless's gun. The one he swears he lost years ago.returnreturnThe police still think it's simple. The couple were seen arguing in a restaurant shortly before the murder. Arthur had just confronted Marin with the reason his check bounced â she'd drained his bank account. But there's something about sad-sack Arthur and the elusive woman he loved that makes Roxane agree to look into it. Marin, she soon learns, had a lot of secrets, though not enough to explain a series of events that include one of the print shop employees vanishing abruptly, the murder of another employee's sister, and the vaguely menacing biblical ravings of a schizophrenic aunt of one of Marin's ex-husbands. Roxane uncovers plenty of clues as she untangles the branches of several family trees, just no idea how they fit together.returnreturnShe also has a personal life that's nearly as complicated, including a fraught relationship with her difficult father, killed in the line of duty. It's a tribute to Lepionka's skill as a writer that she can handle such a large cast of characters, a plot with many moving parts, and a protagonist with baggage in what, in this era of door-stoppers, is a compact mystery. Perhaps that's another homage to the past. Perhaps its simply good writing.

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Sept. 7, 2022